Dynamic Datalist: Autocomplete from an API :: Aaron Gustafson
Great minds think alike! I have a very similar HTML web component on the front page of The Session called input-autosuggest.
Educational Sensational Inspirational Foundational
A historical record of foundational web development blog posts.
Every one of these 42 articles are gold!
It warms my heart to see Resilient Web Design included in this list.
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mirisuzanne/track-list: Enhance a list of audio tracks with playlist controls
This is very nice HTML web component by Miriam, progressively enhancing an ordered list of audio elements.
These are my jams · Paul Robert Lloyd
I like how Paul has recreated his own version of This Is My Jam and I really like how he’s done it with an HTML web component.
Just normal web things.
A plea to let users do web things on websites. In other words, stop over-complicating everything with buckets of JavaScript.
Honestly, this isn’t wishlist isn’t asking for much, and it’s a damning indictment of “modern” frontend development that we’ve come to this:
- Let me copy text so I can paste it.
- If something navigates like a link, let me do link things.
- …
The Future of Web Software Is HTML-over-WebSockets – A List Apart
One of the other arguments we hear in support of the SPA is the reduction in cost of cyber infrastructure. As if pushing that hosting burden onto the client (without their consent, for the most part, but that’s another topic) is somehow saving us on our cloud bills. But that’s ridiculous.
Related posts
The datalist element on iOS
Some buggy behaviour has been fixed in iOS 18 but now there’s a new bit of weirdness.
Lists
Do websites need to sound the same in every screen reader?
Ch-ch-ch-changes
Browser updates bring improvements to progressive web apps on iOS and Android.
Directory enquiries
What if there were a categorised directory of resources for front-end dev?
Harry Roberts is speaking at Web Day Out
This line-up just gets better and better! You’ll want to be in Brighton on March 12th, 2026.